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MOTHER COURAGE AND HER CHILDREN by Bertolt Brecht...
...recent years there have been plenty of playwright absurdists, psychologists, realists or surrealists. But when it came to the drama of ideas or a pure pyrotechnic display of language, there was only Tom Stoppard. And Stoppard is a pussycat compared with that tiger named Bernard Shaw. like his disciple Bertolt Brecht, Shaw regarded plot as the sentimental opiate of the middle-class theatergoer. In Man and Superman, he simply inverts the boy-meets-girl formula: woman wants man, man runs for his bachelor life, woman gets man. As it happens, the man, Jack Tanner (Ian Richardson), is an incendiary charmer...
Since Franco's death, Madrid has sprouted two combative new dailies, El Pais and Diario 16, and a host of snappy magazines like Interviu and Opinion. Theatergoers have been able to see hitherto forbidden plays by Federico Garcia Lorca and Bertolt Brecht. Moviegoers have flocked to such films as Songs for After a War, a documentary on the Franco era, Carlos Saura's Cousin Angelica, a thoughtful flashback to civil war divisions, and Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator...
...Bertolt Brecht sought refuge in the U.S. in 1941 and went to Hollywood "to join the market where lies are bought." Happy End, a musical written in 1929, resembles nothing so much as an oldtime, screwball gangster movie. A rollicking revival staged recently at the Brooklyn Academy of Music has now been admirably transferred to Broadway's Martin Beck Theater...
THREEPENNY OPERA. A stylistically sardonic revival of the Bertolt Brecht-Kurt Weill masterpiece...